Sunrise Train

A beautiful sunrise in Saint Albans Saturday morning.

Kanawha Valley Fog

Fog is one of my favorite things to photograph.  These are a couple of photos from a foggy morning last week. 

Old County Road

Nitro and Saint Albans firefighters work to extinguish a house fire this morning on Old County Road in Nitro.  The house was fully involved when firefighters arrived.

Young Saint Albans Firefighter

That's me on the right, firefighter Eric Mitchell and Captain Carl McCormick on the left.  That was about 25 years ago.  Carl's been retired for at least 20 years.  Now I'm a captain and getting ready to retire next month after 26.5 years.

Presidents Day Snowstorm 2015

Here's a few from the winter storm we had on Monday.

What A Difference...

...a day makes.  The top photo is from Sunday afternoon.  It was cold but sunny.  The temperature was about the same today as yesterday, around 15 degrees F. 

Ruger 10/22

We sighted in our new 10/22 the other day. 

Old Post Office

This is the top of the old post office in Saint Albans, WV.  It was placed on The National Register of Historic Places in 1994.  It's now the home of Chapman Technical Group.

Herzog

A couple of rail car panoramas that I liked.  The top one is a 3 shot panorama and the bottom one is 4.  Click on them for a better view.

Parked Train

A Few Of Saint Albans' Bravest

Cold Water Divers

Firefighters Luke Adkins, Eric Tucker and Mike Lively getting ready to make some cold-water-dives in the Kanawha River Monday afternoon.

Foggy Kanawha River

Saturday morning on the river in Saint Albans.

Tuesday Morning

One of the most dramatic sunrises I've seen.  I was at work with only my 35mm lens for my Fuji x-e2 and I was so struck by the awesomeness that I didn't think about going up on the roof of the fire station until it was over.  Booo!

Tuesday Evening

Chesapeake and Ohio

Cold Water Challenge

Saint Albans Firefighter Eric Tucker takes the "cold water challenge" to help raise money for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

Firehouse Cookin'

A couple of the guys went to the store yesterday to buy stuff for dinner and they were having trouble deciding what to get.  They ran through a whole bunch of dinner combos and finally came up with this.  They just came up with the recipe while they were there in the store and to my knowledge this has never been made at the firehouse before.  I'm not 100% sure of all the ingredients, but I'll hit most of 'em.

Here goes;  Homemade mac & cheese with Velveeta queso blanco cheese on the bottom, a sloppy joe mix made with ground chicken for the middle layer, then a can of Pillsbury grands biscuits on top and then just for good measure, some shredded cheese on top of that.  Mama!!!

Wednesday Morning...

...on my way home from work.

Saint Albans Fire Department

We had a couple of extra guys on shift yesterday because of the big snow we got Sunday night and Monday.   From left to right is Luke, Matt, me, Mike, John, Eric and Rex. Mike was getting off shift from the day before and hung around to help is shovel the pad off.  Also, this is my first post from an iPhone.


Photo by Jeff Davidson